Illiteracy At College or How Do You Spell “USC”???

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Last year the Parking Lot Administration People, in their attempt to ease the horrible parking here at USC, decided to use one side of a number of the aisles in some of the parking lots for smaller cars only. In order to make this clear to the users and purveyors of higher education here, they painted the “NO SUV” signs on the floors of each of the parking spaces along those walls.

The success rate of this project can be seen in the photos here.

Is it that the users and purveyors can’t read? Is it that they don’t give a shit? Is it that the Parking Lot Administration People need to put up neon signs?

About Norman Hollyn

Norman Hollyn has been described as a “media expert,” a reference to his experience in a wide variety of media types – in both the old and new media worlds.

He is a long-time film, television and music editor (HEATHERS, THE COTTON CLUB, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, Oliver Stone’s WILD PALMS), and is Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is an author of nearly 100 articles and his book, THE FILM EDITING ROOM HANDBOOK, has been internationally translated. His new book, THE LEAN FORWARD MOMENT, comes out from Peachpit Press/Pearson in December.

He has taught worldwide, including several workshops for the Royal Film Commission in Jordan. He has taught at the Sundance Film Festival, and consults and speaks at major corporations such as Dreamworks Pictures and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has worked as an expert witness in legal cases involving the aesthetics or history of editing, and is partner in an Internet development firm. He presently editing and co-directing a documentary about architecture called OFF THE GRID and editing an international long-distance collaborative documentary called RIVERS.